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Modrock

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Simblreen Gift #4

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Download Modrocker Hair (TM-EM): SFS | Mediafire

Credits: Synth/Luumia @pforestsims for the undercut stubble texture

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Tim “Chris” Andrews SONG OF THE WEEK: “Discovery”— https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/discovery  — As of 1967, Tim a.k.a. Chris Andrews already had notoriety as lead vocalist/guitarist in the psychedelic bands Les Fleur de Lys (“Mud in Your Eye”) and Rupert’s People (“Reflections of Charles Brown”), but managers and Parlophone Records encouraged to break out as a solo act, doing more mainstream orchestral baroque pop material—even marketing him as a “teen idol.” He was advised to change his name from Chris to Tim to distinguish him from another singer-songwriter Christopher Andrews. Then Tim/Chris was partnered with the multi-talented Paul Korda, on the rise as a producer, singer-songwriter, and actor who was in the original London cast of the musical HAIR and later appeared in major films (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, SPINAL TAP)  and he worked with Love Sculpture, Cat Stevens, Frankie Valli, and Roger Daltrey among others (sadly Paul passed away in 2020). Tim/Chris also moved on, collaborating with Daltrey, David Essex, and Davy Jones (Monkees), and continuing to release solo material to this day as Chris Andrews.

With the legendary Clem Cattini on drums, “Discovery” (a non-LP B-side from 1969) features soaring falsetto and a soulful vibrato on par with Steve Marriott. This densely orchestrated track compares to deep cuts by The Kinks and early Bee Gees—a great piece of Motown-influenced mod-era Britpop that stands the test of time.

#timandrews #chrisandrews #paulkorda #clemcattini #modrock #britishrock #psychedelic #fleurdelys #rupertspeople #beegees #hair #piratesofthecaribbean #spinaltap #elkiebrooks #rogerdaltrey #lovesculpture #frankievalli #stevemarriott #thekinks #parlophonerecords #britpop #vibrato #soulful #chamberpop #baroquepop #discovery

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30/30 Degree Show

Overall, I am very happy with my degree show install. I was surprised that my space was that big, expecting it to be considerably smaller. This worked in my favour though as I think the work would be too crammed in otherwise. My install consists of various moulding and casting methods; plaster, concrete, clay, modrock, gloves, as well as a series of found objects I thought would add to the space. These hand casts hang from the wall using rebar inserted into holes. I had some issues putting some hands up as the rebar was too short as it sunk into the cast while drying, but this was alleviated through putting pins into the wall to secure them. This makes the install very stable and I am sure it won’t fall at any point. I chose to include a broken concrete cast that never set properly as to show the hand in a different context and form, a solid one and a powdered one. A lot of the hands interact with each other, creating a narrative between them. If I could fix one thing, I would play about with the positioning of the hands a bit more, maybe conveying movement or action through their position.

Hand Stuff is an amalgamation of thoughts and internal discussion on the objects around us. The hand has been prevalent in my practice since the beginning; in this context, it is reimagined as distorted plaster and concrete forms. Reclaimed clay is used to create ambiguous moulds that warp the natural appearance of the hand. This work pieces together research on the uncanny and the evocative power of found objects, both working in tandem to elicit strong emotions in the viewer. Whether these are negative or positive is up to the viewer to decide.

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These are the final photos of my house model before installing it on my site.

The best thing about this house that makes it really give the idea of a wee cottage back in the day in the thatched roof. I started off by just laying modrock on the structure I had made for the roof, similar to the last house I made. But I wasn't feeling the cottage in the country vibe. So, I gathered dried twigs and straw and split the thicker ones down the middle. Once adding them on I really felt the difference. To add a finishing touch I put moss on the roof and around the edges of the house.

All together, I am so pieced with my final piece and I found the experience of making in 3D a real learning curve. I am glad I pushed myself outside of my 2D box and experimented with new things.

[piotrgacreativenquiry]

Wednesday 13-03-2024 Writing Retreat

How and where do I begin? With a silly question of course. I am hoping this piece of writing will piece together some of my disparate thoughts and ideas about my critical enquiry module. Over the course of the year there has been a lot of thinking and whilst useful, I think it has bogged me down causing severe issue with the practical part of the project. I often find myself lost and overwhelmed by my thoughts. I don’t think this is a bad thing but it also needs reigned in, especially as we are coming up to the last stretch of fourth year, a scary thought. I was reading a review, critical one, of course, silly me thinking review would make sense without context, and found that the student spoke about a source that talked about how we as art students make work to pass, rather than the work we want to make. I kind of feel like that right now and want to make work that digresses from the work I have already generated for creative enquiry. I think part if it is that I’m aware that the undertaking of my work is huge and I’m worried I wont be able to complete it to a well enough quality for my liking. I don’t want someone else, aka Alan, to do all the work for me so I’ve been reluctant to ask for advice when I’ve needed it. Anyways, that’s my rant over, and now onto the juicy stuff like what my thoughts have been about recently.

My critical enquiry module focuses on uncanny representations of myself through sculpture and casting from my body which, no that sounds bad, start again. My critical enquiry module is an investigation into the uncanny through sculpture and body casting. These works are combined with found materials that are alluring and evocative for me. This, I think, is too broad from the get go. I want to create life-size casts of my body using materials like concrete and plaster but have fallen into issues like what materials to use for a mould. I have been able to use simple methods like modrock and alginate (in low amounts. I’m not rich, yet), which have served their purpose in a smaller scale, however now that I have made hands etc, I want to move onto the larger parts of my body but don’t have the technical skills to be able to achieve that in my opinion. How do I join parts together? Will my materials hold their own weight? This has slowed down my already slow making process and I worry that the making has ended, as I’m in a big rut right now that I’m struggling to get out of. I think partly knowing that I have an almost guaranteed place into my next year of university is to blame, as I have taken a foot of the gas physically, yet in my mind I stress so much about the amount of work I need and want to make.

I know why I want to make my work crude, I think it’s essential for evoking feelings of uncanniness in viewers. Whilst realism is also a nice way to achieve this, like Andy always says, why try to make something look realistic when you can’t and will make a half arsed job of it, when you can make something that is a bit tongue in cheek and/or crude. I think this approach will work and create pieces that are uncanny.

The main element that I have struggled with is the found object. Why am I using them? Why am I drawn to them? etc. I initially wanted to combine parts I have found with sculptural forms of the body. For example, a plaster cast arm, combined with a bike chain, to create a sort of hybrid collage that would unsettle the viewer. A face cast with a piece of wire embedded inside it. I began to make hands and arms and legs but what now? They aren’t connectable to anything without a lot of difficulty and struggle which I worry will damage my work. Woah, maybe I start from scratch? I begin to make what I said I would? I accept that what I have now, is finished, and that I should begin to make what I originally wanted to make! Wow why didn’t I think of this months ago, fucking idiot. These writing retreats are class they really help with getting your thoughts on paper, thank you Louise. Anyways back on track! So I begin from the start duh. So I start all over again. What now? I need a to-do list, a clear plan, and I think, an end goal. New paragraph please.

Found objects. When I walk down the street I tend to look around. I hate my generation and the younger ones that spend all their times on their phones, absorbed in their little devices. Are they the ones being taken on a walk? Are we pets to our phones? I always get annoyed when my girlfriend doesn’t notice the things I do when we are on walks, just look. I think phones have made us passive and flat beings that don’t know how to stay focused for long periods of time. Thanks TikTok. When walking I notice objects (this term is loose, ie OOO definition of objects) and whilst most just look like an object on the ground, many also have something to them. Recently when walking to work, I saw an empty meal deal sandwich packet on the grass and just saw it as rubbish, but beside it lay two vapes that spoke to me. They lay side by side, almost like they were displayed like that on purpose. It was here I realised that these objects react with each other and their environments without our own intervention, something Jane Bennett spoke about in Vibrant Matter. I think moving forward I need to make a journal of these objects and go out my way to remember them for what they really are and how they made me feel. Too many times I’ve walked past these objects and not recorded or taken them, which has resulted in severe regret, This is where my side project comes in. I have began to use AI to create representations of what I remember these objects to look like and so far it has worked great. AI is a scary thing. This works great as I’ve been combining them with very emotive pieces of writing which seems more serious than it is. To me it is serious, it is torment, but to someone else it may seem over the top. I wish I got my pal to drive me to this underpass on the motorway at night, stopped on the motorway, we break a few laws and health and safety regulations and I pick up that fucking fedora. Why didn’t I take that umbrella handle, I was out looking for objects and I just walked past it because it was in grass and the grass was wet and I didn’t have suitable footwear. What else was there? My mind is blank I looked at the time and I have 11 minutes left? Ooft. 1200 words going to try write my post-grad dissertation in one night. Back on track. There’s a bollard lying outside the college that I need to pick up and carve into an arm I think that would be fucking sick, that’s going in my end of year show 100%.

I’m really happy with my writing today. I feel class about where I am and feel confident going forward. It will be hard, to begin a new process from scratch but I look forward to it.

I guess I should come up with my 5 words ae?

TORMENT              FOUND OBJECT                   COLLAGE                     DOUBLE              LOST                           EVOCATIVE             JOURNEY                       EVOLUTION                          CRUDE                                    UNCANNY

Worries and doubts are starting to come back up again but I just need to get through today, I can’t come into college tomorrow as its my first driving lesson at 1 and then I’ll be doing a lot of thinking and organising on Friday, beginning the next stage of my project. Then the week after is install, but a lot of work can be done on Wednesday if we make an invigilation rota for our exhibition. Then Thursday is de-install and lesson and Friday we are back babbyyyyy.

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Disrupt Project- Exploring 3D Materials

I created a smooth, white base for the piece so that it looks like it's breaking out of stone, symbolising the perfectionism and me breaking free of it. The modrock cracks disrupt the smooth, white surface.

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Result of modrock hand mould. Surprised at the amount of detail this process has captured especially around the palm area. The ease and low cost of this process means it’s something I want to take further. I find this piece much more disturbing than the hyper realistic hand which perhaps surpassed the uncanny valley.

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Final.

First building up a base shape using modrock I created this 3 dimensional texture creating the indents in the skin while having the hand perturbing outwards asserting its dominance. Then to smooth everything out I stretched a thin sheet over the canvas this preventing the cracks in the modrock from showing. I primed my canvas using gesso and then added paint. Once the paint was added I wanted to create further dimension in the hand. To do this I mixed flour with the paint creating a paste and I used that to build up more layers.

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Group Project !

As a group we have begun making something all together. The small foam/wooden houses that we have made will also contribute to this piece and bring it all together.

The original idea of this is to create a sort of beast/monster with gorilla like features and attach houses and buildings to it which everyone participated in. Whilst the houses and things were being created, Oliver had created a baseline to work from to create actual dimension to the gorilla. After this was done, Anthony and Oliver used hot glue to stick cardboard on, and around the beast to create a stable base to stick modrock too. I'm pretty sure Kyrstie placed most of the modrock and let it harden so that we could decorate it the next monday we came in. Anthony and Oliver then stuck clay all around the model, constantly smoothing around it and making sure to add details in the muscles, arms, legs, etc, along the way. This was actually really clever and I believe Oliver did a really good job sculpting where the bones were and a good representation of where the muscles should be. I helped a tiny bit smoothening the clay over, but not as much as Oliver and Anthony had.

After all the clay was on and complete, other people in the class had began making armour pieces to place over the beast which made it look like it was in some kind of battle. I thought this was a really clever idea and liked how it all came together. It was then painted grey to give it more of a realistic colour.

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3D development

Crushed paper then covered in modrock .

Take a while to dry and doesn't give me the same feeling or organic process of just paper. Looking at other ways to portray the crumpled paper. I find how hard the forms become interesting they are much sturdier than i would have thought but i think for what i want to portray i want that fragility and a since that it is broken.

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Modrock masks

These freaky masks are made from modroc that has been directly placed on my face to form these masks. I added marks to these using acrylic paint. I aimed to create masks that resemble clown masks, to an extent. I did not plan the marks I would put on them, instead I improvised and succeeded in creating scary “freaks” to wear for my unsettling “circus” performance pieces. I will use these masks again directly and indirectly. I will wear them again as well as use them as a reference to make more masks from the same materials or different materials such as bone chine porcelain. I will make masks out of paper as well and fold them to the shape of faces.

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24/30 Face Cast

I also experimented with casting my face. This began with an alginate version that lacked details. My second one used silicon that lacked the stability to hold its shape resulting in a warped cast. I tried putting a piece of wood through it but it made the cast too disjointed and resulted in it separating. I quite like the angles the wood left, as well as the subtle wood grain that the plaster picked up. I could have experimented more using modrock as a moulding material but didn't think the pain was worth it for subpar effect.

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Academy’ project

The Who - Long Live Rock

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Result of modrock hand mould. Surprised at the amount of detail this process has captured especially around the palm area. The ease and low cost of this process means it’s something I want to take further. I find this piece much more disturbing than the hyper realistic hand which perhaps surpassed the uncanny valley.